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The briefing said that Ken Maginnis was ‘in many ways the most attractive (in personal terms) of the UUP upper echelon’…

The briefing said that Ken Maginnis was ‘in many ways the most attractive (in personal terms) of the UUP upper echelon’.

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams told Ulster Unionist Party leader David Trimble bluntly that he was “the best bet we have” and that Republicans wanted to work with him to achieve a lasting peace settlement in Northern Ireland.

State papers: UUP leader David Trimble was seemingly unaware of meetings being held in 2001 with members of his own party

The briefing said that Ken Maginnis was ‘in many ways the most attractive (in personal terms) of the UUP upper echelon’

The 1999 National Archives of Ireland papers chart the Good Friday Agreement and the Patten Report.

It was noted that ‘the unionists did not want their faces rubbed’ in the fact that there would not be a dual name for the police force.

All paramilitary groups were to decommission by May 2000 under the Good Friday Agreement.

It was noted that ‘the unionists did not want their faces rubbed’ in the fact that there would not be a dual name for the police force.

It was noted that ‘the unionists did not want their faces rubbed’ in the fact that there would not be a dual name for the police force.